Country size comparison
compared to
Eritrea is about 9 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 11.41% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.0 million more people live in Eritrea).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Eritrea
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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